This weekly feature is a place to discuss new developments in fields of history and archaeology. This can be newly discovered documents and archaeological sites, recent publications, documents that have just become publicly available through digitization or the opening of archives, and new theories and interpretations.
I am very pleased to see the Nevada/federal census database back online. I had developed the database together with a demography professor who subsequently died. My office maintained the data online for researchers, but it was taken down after my retirement. As of today, University of Nevada, Reno has put it back online.
This is a great tool for research having full searchable records for all existing federal manuscript census records in Nevada from 1860 to 1920. With this tool, it took me about 30 seconds to become one of the leading experts in Manx immigration to the American West! Your path to fame can be similarly secured with this site. Enjoy!
Some non-English stuff: the government of South Korea has recently digitized the entirety of the Classical Chinese text of the Ming Shilu (The Veritable Records of the Ming Dynasty) and the Qing Shilu (The Veritable Records of the Qing Dynasty). And yes, those are the two Early Modern Chinese dynasties, not any homophonous Korean ones.
Unfortunately it's just the original text, with no translation either in Korean or English. The settings - dates, search functions, etc - are actually in Korean, so probably not too useful for English-speaking history buffs. But still a valuable resource, especially if you don't like pdfs.
There's been an increase in the reporting of archaeological rescue digs in the UK recently.
The most coverage being given to the CAU's Must Farm Quarry site, but there was also a "high status" Roman site found (unfortunately I've lost the link).
It's nice to see reports on commercial/developer/non-academic led archaeology as a lot of it goes on that doesn't get widely disseminated to the public.